La sculpture au Musée national du Luxembourg
A 1900 Paris plate book, La sculpture au Musée national du Luxembourg, compiled by Léonce Bénédite for the national museum's French sculpture collection, with one photographed marble or plaster statue per page and short captions naming sculptor and title. The photographs are plain black-and-white views against dark grounds, showing nude figures in classical and naturalist poses, some turned sideways on the page; a designer could take their dramatic lighting, strong silhouettes, and the stone-and-skin contrast of white figures on black.
